Down to a T

Gabriela Bandy is an established entrepreneur who has mastered content creation and is now transitioning into being an artist, using lessons learned on social media to drive her passion for music, dabbling in different genres as she finds her sound. The story of her family and her life is a story of immigration, and Gabriela talks about her experience with moving around different parts of the US and building a business for herself....

This episode was a JOURNEY fam. Music executive & founder of the Global Tumbao DJ collective, Albert Piedrahita, talks us through his various perspectives on the current Latin music landscape (and his dream collaboration!). We also discuss the challenges of being vulnerable as a Latino man and how the process of healing from adversity and loss can lead to a deeper relationship with ourselves. Albert is a community builder, and ...

This week’s guest: YOU. Our mid-year Q&A is here, and y’all did not disappoint with these questions. You went to the deep stuff, and we love it. Thati answers listeners about work burnout, cultural taboos we can dispel about Latinidad, some of her attempts at an acting career, and more!

Down to a T

Hosted by Thatiana Diaz (T), this unfiltered and culturally relevant podcast aims to entertain and distract listeners from the often ...

This has been a long time coming, fam. Our friend Michelle Disla, formerly Big Mama Cooks, talks about her social media rebrand after the pandemic, and how sometimes the algorithm can pigeonhole you into doing the same thing over and over again to keep that engagement up. She shared a lot of insights about how gaining social media fame can be used to make people happy and make an impact. We also get into some fun topics like social...

Give it up for stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Carlos Hernandez. This episode takes us through the ever-present experience surrounding bicultural and bilingual comedy, and navigating multicultural spaces as Latine immigrants. Carlos and Thati talk about using difficult moments, and turning them into comedy, creating opportunities to talk about touchy political subjects in this current climate, and being affectionate with our L...

Tulio is back! After some months away, our producer Tulio joins Thatiana back in the studio for a quick kiki. We are already halfway through the year so we thought we’d check in with you** and with each other (aww 🥹) and talk about the highs and the lows of 2025 so far, the music we’ve listened to, and really some of the weirdest cultural events we’ve seen in our lifetime including but not limited to the truly bizarre Labubu trend...

Actress, singer, writer, and director Florencia Cuenca joins us for a very fun conversation about dog parents, spoiling TV shows, why we need to drop the expectation that women have to know how to cook, and the current state of Latine representation in media and live shows. We discuss her Broadway debut in the new hit, "Real Women Have Curves," and what it means to be a Mexican immigrant in the theater community.

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Stand-up comedian and podcast host Ian Lara joins Thati in a long-awaited meetup (he was going to be one of our first guests, but the snowstorm of 2024 changed our plans!). We talk about Ian’s upbringing and how that has informed his comedic style, the industry pressures to act a certain way or talk about “Latino things”, drinking etiquette, and the current state of cancel culture. Ian also teased his upcoming comedy special, which...

Self-proclaimed ex-girlboss and entrepreneur Lissette Rios joins Thatiana for an emotional rollercoaster, ranting against corporate-speak, stepping away from the “girlboss” mentality, and how the late 90s/early 2000s narrative about “having it all” put a lot of professional women in a box. Lissette talks through the many ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and we’re especially grateful for her vulnerability as she shares her experie...

Dietitian and author of The Latina Anti-Diet, Dalina Soto, joins the pod to go into some dieting myths and the history of how Latinos eat. She shares her journey as a registered dietitian and speaks in a very approachable way when it comes to dieting culture, which has been resonating a lot with her audience. We talk overrated food trends, the unwarranted criticism of rice in allegedly healthy diets, and the chaos of latino family ...

In our second episode, a partnership with Neutrogena, we have the incredible La Cassandra, who shows us a side of her beyond what you see on stage. We kick things off by commiserating about the struggles with getting our hair to bend to our will, only to realize that the best thing we can do for our peace of mind is letting our hair be whatever it wants to be. We speak about the role our communities play in keeping the culture and ...

We hit a big milestone for the pod… we’re standing on business with our first brand partnership with Neutrogena! This episode’s guest, Latin Grammy winner, songwriter, producer, and multi-hyphenate extraordinaire Ella Bric, talks us through her journey as an artist and how she fuels her curiosity to try new things as she navigates different stages in her life. We discuss the upcoming summer music festivals, getting ready to spend t...

We are thrilled to have the one and only Tefi Pessoa on the pod! She and Thatiana talk about their POV as Latinas in the media, and get into a nuanced conversation about Latinidad, and also, who decides what makes someone Latino? Is it the language, the food, the culture? And why do some people get to be the ones who decide? We also talk about dedicating our hard work to ourselves, the need for more Latin Horror films, and Tefi’s o...

This one’s special, y’all! We have our first trio of guests on the pod, with The Kid Mero, Rainey Ovalle, and Lizbel Ortiz from Victory Light bringing in that high energy from start to finish. We laugh (perhaps a bit too much), but we also find the time to get vulnerable and talk about what it means to keep it real and to do things because you like them, even if they’re not paying the bills. Many jokes about the roles our Dominican...

It’s all love and admiration for this episode with one of Thatiana’s friends and emerging content creator, Karen Rivera. We get into movies, the nitty gritty details of content creation and growing an audience online, building communities from a place of authenticity, music talk (with some HOT takes), our love for Bad Bunny, and we single-handedly revive the Boy Band Wars! 

Down to a T

Hosted by Thatiana Diaz (T), this unfiltered and...

Lifestyle and fashion content creator Chelsea Vaughn came down to the studio and gave us some big *moving* news, learning to speak Spanish, and shared some “aha” moments for when you’re navigating your 30s. We talk about the joys of putting in the effort into ourselves now that we’re grown, and since we’re in our thirties this means it’s a few years of back to back weddings we must attend so we obviously talk about wedding etiquett...

So many concerts, so little time! There’s so much happening with music in 2025, y’all, it’s going to be hard to choose. But we do have time to spend in deep conversation with musician and artist Chavi Leons. He walks us through his career, what he loves to do in his spare time, and the evolution of newer generations of bachata musicians. We also talk about how important it is to have a support network that can be there for you when...

New Year, New T – we are back with our second season of Down to a T, and we get right into it with Thatiana’s good friend Blake Newby, fellow podcaster and content creator multihyphenate. We talk about a certain better-than-hibachi chain restaurant, exploring good food and TV on our off days, balancing the doomscrolling and your inner peace, and doing away with toxic positivity online. Plus, we discuss the never-ending Blake Lively...

This is the last episode of Down to a T in 2024, and we are joined by the iconic sister duo Natalie and Nicole from Nina Sky. We talk about their journey into becoming parents, turning 40,  what they do in their downtime, the tricks of camping, and some reality TV faves. Stay tuned in 2025 for more episodes! 

Down to a T

Hosted by Thatiana Diaz (T), this unfiltered and culturally relevant podcast aims to entertain and distract listen...